test-driven-development

test-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yinqd3/workbuddy-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,281 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-development method called test-driven development, or TDD, where you write a test first, confirm that it fails, then write the smallest implementation that makes it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building features, fixing bugs, refactoring, and changing behaviour through the red-green-refactor cycle: failing test, passing implementation, then cleanup.
Why use it?
Writing code before a test can leave you unsure whether the test checks the intended behaviour. TDD provides a repeatable way to define and verify each change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yinqd3/workbuddy-skills/test-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add yinqd3/workbuddy-skills --skill test-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yinqd3/workbuddy-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00053 $0.01281
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00641
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00128

Measured 6d ago against content hash c5aca467879b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-driven-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

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superpowers/test-driven-development/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

测试驱动开发(TDD)

核心原则

先写测试,看它失败,写最少代码让它通过。

如果你没看到测试失败,你就不知道它是否测试了正确的东西。

铁律

没有先看到失败的测试 = 没有生产代码

先写代码再写测试?删掉,重新来。

  • 不要保留做"参考"
  • 不要在写测试时"改编"它
  • 不要看它
  • 删除就是删除

何时使用

永远:

  • 新功能
  • Bug 修复
  • 重构
  • 行为变更

例外(需要人类伙伴确认):

  • 一次性原型
  • 自动生成的代码
  • 配置文件

"就这一次跳过 TDD 吧"?停。那是合理化借口。

红-绿-重构循环

RED — 写失败测试

写一个最小测试展示应该发生什么。

好的测试:

def test_retries_failed_operations_three_times():
    attempts = 0
    def operation():
        nonlocal attempts
        attempts += 1
        if attempts < 3:
            raise Exception("fail")
        return "success"
    result = retry(operation)
    assert result == "success"
    assert attempts == 3

清晰命名,测试真实行为,只测一件事

差的测试:

def test_retry():
    mock = Mock(side_effect=[Exception, Exception, "success"])
    retry(mock)
    assert mock.call_count == 3

模糊命名,测 mock 不是测代码

要求:

  • 一个行为一个测试
  • 清晰的描述性名称
  • 测试真实代码(非必要不用 mock)

验证 RED — 看它失败

强制步骤,不可跳过。

pytest tests/path/test.py::test_name -v

确认:

  • 测试失败(不是报错)
  • 失败信息符合预期
  • 失败原因 = 功能缺失,不是拼写错误

测试直接通过? 你在测已有行为,修正测试。

GREEN — 最少代码

写最简单的代码让测试通过。不要:

  • 加测试不需要的选项
  • 重构其他代码
  • "改进"超过测试要求的范围

验证 GREEN — 看它通过

强制步骤。

pytest tests/path/test.py::test_name -v

确认:

  • 目标测试通过
  • 所有其他测试仍然通过
  • 输出干净(无错误、无警告)

REFACTOR — 清理

只在绿色之后:

  • 消除重复
  • 改进命名
  • 提取辅助函数

保持测试绿色,不要添加行为。

重复

下一个失败测试 → 下一个功能。

好测试的标准

品质 好的 差的
最小 一件事。名字里有"和"?拆开。 test_validates_email_and_domain()
清晰 名字描述行为 test1test_works
展示意图 展示期望的 API 隐藏代码应该做什么

为什么顺序重要

"我先写代码再补测试来验证"

事后写的测试立刻通过。立刻通过什么也证明不了:

  • 可能测了错的东西
  • 可能测了实现而非行为
  • 可能漏了边界情况
  • 你从来没见过它抓到 bug

常见借口粉碎

借口 现实
"太简单不用测" 简单代码也会坏。写测试只花 30 秒。
"我稍后补测试" 测试立即通过证明不了任何事。
"我已经手动测过了" 临时的 ≠ 系统性的。没有记录,无法重跑。
"删掉 X 小时工作太浪费" 沉没成本谬误。保留未验证代码 = 技术债。
"TDD 太死板,实际点" TDD 就是实际的:提交前找到 bug(比事后调试快)。
"保留做参考,先写测试" 你会改编它。那就是测试后补。删除就是删除。

红灯 — 停,重来

以下任何情况出现,意味着跳过 TDD:

  • 测试之前写了代码
  • 代码后补的测试
  • 测试立即通过
  • 解释不了测试为什么失败
  • "我稍后加测试"
  • 合理化"就这一次"
  • "我已经手动测过了"

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

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  1. 6d ago First seen · 180 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A c5aca467879b

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test-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository yinqd3/workbuddy-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,281 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.